A Process to Develop and Implement Drinking Water Protection Strategies

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A Process to Develop and Implement Drinking Water
Protection Strategies
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The Big Picture
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The Fully Loaded Approach
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Four Steps to Developing or Implementing
Protection Strategies

• 1. Form the team
• 2. Review the delineation
• 3. Refine the inventory
• 4. Identify key strategies

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Step 1 Form the Team

• Get key people
• interested

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• Identify potential stakeholders

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Recruit with a passion

• News releases
• School flyers
• Recruitment letters
• Word of Mouth

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Clarify roles and responsibilities

• Elected officials
• Water system staff
• Drinking water protection committee
• Interagency steering team
• Consultant

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Dolan, Jr.
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Establish ground rules or bylaws.Choose a
decision-making model.
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Agree on a timeframe and meeting schedule
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Educate the committee

• Groundwater or surface water basics
• Need to develop a plan
• The committees charge
• Guidance documents

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Step 2 - Review the delineation
Discuss the delineation of the source water
protection area
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Have a field tour of the water supply area
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Step 3 - Review the inventory
Review the potential risks in the Source Water
Assessment Inventory
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Refine the inventory

• Adjust risk ratings
• Identify past land use hazards
• Note variety in land uses
• Map results

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Step 4Develop Management Strategies
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• Identify ways to reduce risks

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• Break into sub-committees and prioritize threats

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• Recognize what is already being done to minimize
  threats.

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• Develop goals broadly stating what is to be
  accomplished

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• Review the top dozen
• management strategy categories

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Let the committee make its own choices

• You have brains in your head.
• You have feet in your shoes.
• You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
• You are on your own, And you know what you know.
• And YOU are the guy wholl decide where you go.

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Overall approach Keep it concrete and doable

• Educate
• Develop incentives
• Technical assistance
• Use a voluntary approach

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Developing or Implementing Management Strategy
Options
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• The main goal is to identify and do at least a
  few things to protect the water supply

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• Recruit by word of mouth
• Be satisfied with who shows up

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• Borrow from existing plans adding what is unique
  to your area

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Identify existing group to work with
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Pick the Low Hanging Fruit

• The easy things and/or the highest risks

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Weave drinking water protection in with other
issues

• Comprehensive plan updates
• Code updates
• TMDLs
• Parks and open space

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Work Together

• Neighboring water systems
• Watershed
• County

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Dolan, Jr.
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The Groundwater Management Area

• An example of
• Using an existing group
• Integrating with other issues
• Systems working together
• Borrowing from existing plans

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230 Square Miles Within Three Counties

• Five cities
• 51 public water systems
• Multiple land uses

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Committee Formed to Address High Nitrate
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Results

• Developed a public water section of the Action
  Plan
• Have a regional drinking water protection plan
• Joint implementation of strategies

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Benefits

• Less time
• Less money
• Share efforts
• Can approach state and county agencies as a group

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Regardless of the ProcessJust Do It

• Work individually
• Work with others
• Dont develop a plan but do a few things
• Integrate with other issues

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of United
States (1858 - 1919)
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Overall Goal

• Clean Drinking Water

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